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Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports

Phoronix - Thu, 10/03/2024 - 00:54

The Redox OS open-source Rust-written operating system project has published their September 2024 status update...

Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports - Phoronix

Google News - Thu, 10/03/2024 - 00:54

Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports Phoronix

Decade-Old Linux Vulnerability Can Be Exploited for DDoS Attacks on CUPS - HackRead

Google News - Thu, 10/03/2024 - 00:43

Decade-Old Linux Vulnerability Can Be Exploited for DDoS Attacks on CUPS HackRead

Intel Xeon 6980P SNC3 vs. HEX Clustering Mode Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 23:10

With the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors that launched last week there are SNC3 and HEX clustering modes for these new processors. The default Sub-NUMA Clustering 3 (SNC3) mode for the three compute dies while the HEX mode is like SNC1 mode formerly for all three compute dies acting as one NUMA node. Using the flagship 128-core Intel Xeon 6980P processors, I ran some benchmarks looking at the real-world performance difference for SNC3 vs. HEX clustering modes on Granite Rapids.

Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Release In December

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 22:49

A roadmap/schedule has been published for the lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop. If all goes well this next iteration of the Xfce desktop will be out before Christmas...

Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11 and hello to Nitrux Linux 3.7.0 - BetaNews

Google News - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 22:12

Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11 and hello to Nitrux Linux 3.7.0 BetaNews

Embedded Executive: Zephyr Could Be the OS You’ve Been Waiting For, Linux Foundation - Embedded Computing Design

Google News - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 21:53

Embedded Executive: Zephyr Could Be the OS You’ve Been Waiting For, Linux Foundation Embedded Computing Design

How To Secure SSH Access on Ubuntu Servers (Video Tutorial) - ITPro Today

Google News - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:02

How To Secure SSH Access on Ubuntu Servers (Video Tutorial) ITPro Today

Notcurses Is Still Alive For Ramping Up "Terminal Bling" With Complex TUIs

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 18:47

For those wanting to build really nifty and complex text user interfaces (TUIs) for terminal applications, Notcurses is one of the options for maximizing the "terminal bling" with some rather vibrant features that goes well beyond what's offered with the likes of Ncurses. It's been nearly two years since the last release while was surprised today to see out a new version...

Golang Now Enables Speedier getrandom() On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 18:34

The Linux 6.11 kernel introduced getrandom() in the vDSO for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs. In addition to patches pending for Glibc to make use of getrandom() vDSO support, Golang is now another early user of this functionality...

Golang Now Enables Speedier getrandom() On Linux - Phoronix

Google News - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 18:34

Golang Now Enables Speedier getrandom() On Linux Phoronix

OpenVPN Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Improving VPN Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 18:19

For those making use of OpenVPN for your virtual private network (VPN) needs, years in the making has been an "OVPN" Linux kernel driver to enhance the performance by offloading more of the work to kernel-space...

OpenVPN Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Improving VPN Performance - Phoronix

Google News - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 18:19

OpenVPN Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Improving VPN Performance Phoronix

Manjaro 24.1 Released With GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6.1 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 17:53

Manjaro 24.1 "Xahea" debuted on Tuesday as the newest update to this Arch Linux based distribution. Manjaro 24.1 is the first new tagged release since May and with it comes updated desktop options, the Linux 6.10 kernel, and other package upgrades...